Hermeneutyczna antropologia Wilhelma Diltheya (Wilhelm Dilthey’s hermeneutical anthropology)

Abstract

The aim of the above text is presentation and a critical analysis of the vision of human being contained in Dilthey’s hermeneutical philosophy of life. It is well-known that Dilthey based his early epistemology of the humanities on so-called descriptive psychology that anticipated the phenomenology of Husserl. I try to show that this concept is explicitly connected with an anthropology that tries to dicover – on a basis of historical research of human culture – the universal categories describing the essence of human being as such.

Keywords

• subject
• objective spirit
• intellect
• emotions
• will
• descriptive psychology
• anthropology
• hermeneutics
• life
• temporality
• historicity